Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy and chairman of the Department of History, Government, and Economics, will deliver a short series of lectures on sociology at the University of Illinois from April 8 to 12, it was learned yesterday...
...David Hume's Scepticism", Professor Eaton, Emerson...
...glance at the quotation board, last week, showed that "The City" expects to see the Conservatives and Laborites matched against each other as two nearly equal Goliaths-with Liberalism's small David Lloyd George twirling between them in his slingshot the dangerous pellet called "balance of power." By allying himself with either Goliath, smart Little David would lay the other low; and although he can scarcely hope to hold the Prime Ministry himself, he could keep the unfortunate incumbent of that office on the hooks...
...power between Conservatives and Laborites, but in those days, the helm of Liberalism was steadied by the firm hand and moral weight of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, now dead (TIME., Feb. 27, 1928). Today there is no force within the Liberal Party able to keep Little David from staging his own particular brand of rip-roaring Taffy Welshman's holiday...
...promised to find work for virtually all of Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed-and this without increasing taxes! Though the speech was branded at once as pure demagogy by disinterested editors throughout the U.S. and Europe, the London stock exchange figures coldly suggested, last week, that Welsh David had made a big killing of prospective votes...